Church-history of the government of bishops and their councils abbreviated including the chief part…

§ 17. Next the words of learned Theodorite are scanned; and many very smart passages against Cyril are recited: Many verbal Controversies are repeated. Theodorite is accused for saying, That Mary begat not God in the nature of God; ⟨p. 182⟩but Man as united to the Godhead;¹ That Christ was forsaken, suffered, hungered, slept, was ignorant of that day and hour, &c. as man, and not as God: That it was not God that was ignorant, (he meant not as God, or not the Deity) but the form of a Servant, which knew no more than the Deity revealed: And so of many other properties or acts of the Humanity, he saith, It was not Deus Verbum that wept, that learnt obedience, &c. meaning only not quâ Deus, or not Deitas, for want of care in speaking. And Ep. ad Joh. Antioch. (Bin. p. 559.) it's apparent that he also misunderstood Cyril, and thought he held that by Unity of Natures, the Deity was properly become very flesh. A severe Epist. ad Joan. Antioch, against Cyril after his death is there charged on him, in which he with great saltness rejoiceth in his death, [Miserum illum nec ad similitudinem aliorum dimisit nostrarum animarum gubernator diutius eorum potiri, quae videntur esse delectabilia; sed crescentem quotidie viri malignitatem sciens & corpori Ecclesiae nocentem, quasi pestem quandam amputavit & abstulit opprobrium à filiis Israel: Laetificabit superstites ejus discessio: Contristavit verò forsitan mortuos, & timor est ne praegravati ejus conversatione, iterum ad nos remittant, vel illos diffugiat qui eum abducunt, sicut ille tyrannus Cyri Ciliciam: Procurandum est igitur, & oportet tuam Sanctitatem maxim hanc suscipere festinantiam, & jubere collegio mortuos asportantium lapidem aliquem maximum & gravissimum Sepulchro imponere, ne iterum huc perveniret & instabilem voluntatem iterum demonstraret: Infernis nova dogmata adferat: Ibi diu noctuque sicut vult sermocinetur: Non enim timemus ne & illos divideret—silet miser invitus: Nudata illus facta alligant linguam, obstruunt os, fraenant sensum.—Ideo plango miserum & ploro: Nec enim puram mihi delectationem fecit mortis ejus denunciatio, sed dolore permixtam: Laetor & jucundor ejusmodi pestilentiâ commune Ecclesiae videns liberatum: Contristor vero & ploro cogitans quod nec requiem malorum miserabilis susceperit, sed majora & pejora pertentans defunctus est;

§ 17. Next the words of learned Theodorite are scanned; and many very smart passages against Cyril are recited: Many verbal Controversies are repeated. Theodorite is accused for saying, That Mary begat not God in the nature of God;